archives

bnuckols

Conservative Christian Family Doctor, promoting conservative news and views. (Hot Air under the right wing!)
bnuckols has written 1642 posts for LifeEthics

>More on Clinton Health Plan

>After my review about some of the news coverage of Hillary Clinton’s proposed government healthcare plan, I did some more digging. The Kaisernetwork.org review is here. A Wall Street Journal editorial is here. The proposed Clinton plan mandates coverage and depends on 1/3 of its revenue from “$35 billion in savings to the government through … Continue reading

Rao: Adult Stem Cells “soon to be on the market”

The journal Stem Cells has published an Open-Access review by the former NIH director, Mahendra Rao, MD, PhD, covering last month’s “Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine Conference” at the National Center for Regenerative Medicine in Ohio. Another review with summaries of some of the individual talks as well as the history of the … Continue reading

Gardisil protects against other HPV strains

Medscape Medical News reports that Gardisil, the vaccine against 4 strains of Human Papilloma Virus that cause cervical cancer and warts, also causes the body to make antibodies against other strains of the virus. The information comes from data obtained in the last 7 years of research on the vaccine: The first evidence of this … Continue reading

Gardasil protects against other HPV strains

>Medscape Medical News reports that Gardasil, the vaccine against 4 strains of Human Papilloma Virus that cause cervical cancer and warts, also causes the body to make antibodies against other strains of the virus. The information comes from data obtained in the last 7 years of research on the vaccine: The first evidence of this … Continue reading

Government mandated healthcare is government-controlled healthcare

According to this article from the Associated Press, Hillary Clinton envisions a day when you will have to show proof of insurance to your employer prior to being hired for a job. By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 18, 12:59 PM ET WASHINGTON – Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate … Continue reading

>Government mandated healthcare is government-controlled healthcare

>According to this article from the Associated Press, Hillary Clinton envisions a day when you will have to show proof of insurance to your employer prior to being hired for a job. By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 18, 12:59 PM ET WASHINGTON – Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate … Continue reading

>More on Liberal Conservative Nature Neuroscience article

>Dr. Amodio, the corresponding author of the report I mentioned Thursday, “Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism,” was kind enough to send me the article and the supporting material. The picture above is the figure that accompanies the 2 page report. I believe that the paper may demonstrate some evidence concerning the part of the … Continue reading

Stem Cells in Tendons (Plus some education)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported last week that scientists have isolated stem cells from tendons which help in the growth and repair of those structures. The abstract of the peer-reviewed report, “Identification of tendon stem/progenitor cells and the role of the extracellular matrix in their niche,” is curently available at Nature Medicine at … Continue reading

>Stem Cells in Tendons (Plus some education)

>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported last week that scientists have isolated stem cells from tendons which help in the growth and repair of those structures. The abstract of the peer-reviewed report, “Identification of tendon stem/progenitor cells and the role of the extracellular matrix in their niche,” is curently available at Nature Medicine at … Continue reading

Confirmation: Adult Cells Reprogrammed to Embryonic Stem Cells

Last year, we read, and blogged about experiments by Drs. Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan demonstrating that (adult) mouse fibroblasts could be reprogrammed to become embryonic stem cells in hopes of being able to one day develop truly “patient specific” stem cells made from the person’s own adult stem cells. … Continue reading

If the post is missing: take the “www.” out of the url

Categories

Archives

SiteMeter